Having lived behind the scenes during the Big Band era of the thirties and forties, Drew Page invites us to share that era with him. An instrumentalist... Læs mere
With a few notable exceptions, historians have tended to ignore the role that science and medicine played in the antebellum American South. The fourteen essays in... Læs mere
Examines the work of post-Civil War southern writers who criticize the myth of the South as pastoral paradise. Sooner or later in all their... Læs mere
A decade and more has passed since the first publication of Still Rebels, Still Yankees. During that time the book has become recognised as a classic affirmation of the necessity of tradition in conserving cultural order.
The New Orleans writer Grace King was an intensely loyal daughter of the South. Fostered by bitter memories of the Civil War, her loyalty was kept burning by her family's... Læs mere
Offers a concise historical survey of the methods by which the United States government has sought to organise military forces from the... Læs mere